son, fire, rad/ta corr
Mind/Cold, Earth/Cold, Ice/Cold. Thugs/Therm. Rad/Em. Earth Assualt wont be good.
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Yeah the close-to-zero information on earth assault definately shows that it will be a bad set.
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Yeah the close-to-zero information on earth assault definately shows that it will be a bad set.
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lol pwnd XD
Why are people thinking Cold is going to be good? From all of the encounters I've had, and actually playing a Cold/Son Defender where the numbers in Cold are higher, Cold is basically a joke.
Am I missing something?
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all my encounters with cold defenders have been good, they only lack the ability to survive before getting all their debuffs off sometimes... with a trollers hold it will make it much easier i guess.
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all my encounters with cold defenders have been good, they only lack the ability to survive before getting all their debuffs off sometimes... with a trollers hold it will make it much easier i guess.
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With a Controllers holds, it will become "immensly" easier.
My Ice/Cold Corr, when I had Soul Mastery, was sorta able to "mimmick" the ability that a Controller will have with his holds by using PowerBoost+Soul Storm. Due to Soul Storm's ability to induce "knock-up" the normally short duration of Corruptor Holds was slightly increased (Power Boost helped too) and it gave me at least an "idea" of how it would be to have Controller level holds combined with */Cold. The hold made applying the full extent of */Cold debuffs much much easier. The downside to the Soul Storm hold, however, was it's loooooong animation, so alot of time I could spend applying debuffs while my victim was mez'd was actually spent just finishing the animation 
I can only imagine how awesome it will be to have real holds from the Controller primaries, which are alot faster to animate than Soul Storm, and last alot longer as well.
So yes, as far as I can tell, */Cold is gonna simply wreck when given to Trollers...hell, I'm inticed to roll one just to feel the power
Benumb...... PB.......Hold......Debuffs.......Slows.......
Ice/Cold/PM
Only if they fix slows....if they haven't then all this is moot.
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Yeah the close-to-zero information on earth assault definately shows that it will be a bad set.
[/ QUOTE ] The fact that Sun said it will mainly be melee makes it bad already bad. Meaning that ranged attacks will probably be Hurl Boulder. Based Melee Dom is bad news. Their HP is bad as is and now they have to risk going in their opponents range. GG
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Why are people thinking Cold is going to be good? From all of the encounters I've had, and actually playing a Cold/Son Defender where the numbers in Cold are higher, Cold is basically a joke.
Am I missing something?
[/ QUOTE ] Ice/Cold will have a long hold and will be the classic Ice/Rad except now all your debuffs are not a toggle. Slows will destroy someone easily. Earth/Cold has the best damaging hold, has quicksand. But mainly the fact that it stacks -def with every hit PLUS Colds -def.
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Benumb...... PB.......Hold......Shiver.......Debuffs.......More Slows.......
Ice/Cold/PM
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Idk if I'm gonna try out an Elec/somthing scrapper =/ (probably not =x I still think BS/ or Fire/ is better in PvP =/ maybe even Spines/ for its range =x)
Ice/Cold would have been instant FotM when slows were godly. Mind/Cold will wreck people in duels still. I'm not sure about TA for corrs since they can already pair webnades with better debuffs. And obviously Rad/EM.
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Yeah the close-to-zero information on earth assault definately shows that it will be a bad set.
[/ QUOTE ] The fact that Sun said it will mainly be melee makes it bad already bad. Meaning that ranged attacks will probably be Hurl Boulder. Based Melee Dom is bad news. Their HP is bad as is and now they have to risk going in their opponents range. GG
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And? Hurl Boulder will most likely do a good amount of burst damage, based on activation time. There is alot of speculation that Earth Assault will be getting a dull pain clone (earths embrace). And it isnt hard to get into melee when your target is held/KBed.
Edit: I'm not saying it will be better than /Nrg or /Elec, but it certainly will not be a bad set, especially if they throw earths embrace in there.
Seems everyone's wetting themselves over Rad/EM Blasters (few people I've talked to said Psi will still be better in team arena scenarios but I think for zones and dueling Rad will take the #1 spot). What other I16 proliferated combinations do you think will click right away? I'm thinking:
Rad/EM Blaster
Fire/Cold and Mind/Cold Controller
Nin/Therm and Thugs/Therm MM
BS/WP Stalker (possibly in second behind Elec/WP due to Headsplitter)
Earth Assault Doms might be nice but Sunstorm has gone on the record as saying it'll be a melee-heavy set, and aside from Elec Assault (and now Energy Assault), that doesn't seem to be the preferred Dom playstyle.
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